Act Like a Radiologist: Radiology Report Generation across Anatomical Regions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16685v2
• Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:53:41 GMT
• Title: Act Like a Radiologist: Radiology Report Generation across Anatomical Regions
• Authors: Qi Chen, Yutong Xie, Biao Wu, Xiaomin Chen, James Ang, Minh-Son To, Xiaojun Chang, Qi Wu,
• Abstract summary: X-RGen is a radiologist-minded report generation framework across six anatomical regions. In X-RGen, we seek to mimic the behaviour of human radiologists, breaking them down into four principal phases. We enhance the recognition capacity of the image encoder by analysing images and reports across various regions.
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• Abstract: Automating radiology report generation can ease the reporting workload for radiologists. However, existing works focus mainly on the chest area due to the limited availability of public datasets for other regions. Besides, they often rely on naive data-driven approaches, e.g., a basic encoder-decoder framework with captioning loss, which limits their ability to recognise complex patterns across diverse anatomical regions. To address these issues, we propose X-RGen, a radiologist-minded report generation framework across six anatomical regions. In X-RGen, we seek to mimic the behaviour of human radiologists, breaking them down into four principal phases: 1) initial observation, 2) cross-region analysis, 3) medical interpretation, and 4) report formation. Firstly, we adopt an image encoder for feature extraction, akin to a radiologist's preliminary review. Secondly, we enhance the recognition capacity of the image encoder by analysing images and reports across various regions, mimicking how radiologists gain their experience and improve their professional ability from past cases. Thirdly, just as radiologists apply their expertise to interpret radiology images, we introduce radiological knowledge of multiple anatomical regions to further analyse the features from a clinical perspective. Lastly, we generate reports based on the medical-aware features using a typical auto-regressive text decoder. Both natural language generation (NLG) and clinical efficacy metrics show the effectiveness of X-RGen on six X-ray datasets. Our code and checkpoints are available at: https://github.com/YtongXie/X-RGen.

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